The one of Dan under brakes is a real indicator of that...
Obviously pulling it up hard and late after a quick run down a straight.
The one of Dan under brakes is a real indicator of that...
Obviously pulling it up hard and late after a quick run down a straight.
Jo Siffert was at the Michigan Can Am race with an early version of the Porsche 917 # 0 ..note without a high rear wing.
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"Seppi" Siffert had a visit from Stirling Moss during practice.
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Input by Ken H
September 1969. Michigan Int. Speedway.
The masterful driving once again of Denis Hulme led him to pole position for the Can Am race in his McLaren Cars Team M8 Chevrolet # 5.
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( Denny Hulme superbly captured by the photos of Jerry Melton.)
(Ken H)
One kiwi who did not have any luck at Michigan was Chris Amon with his Ferrari 612 P V-12, # 16
Even though it was 3rd quickest in practice the engine once again had oiling problems and the bearings became welded to the crankshaft and they did not have a spare Ferrari engine.
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KJH
Hey Ken,
Great photos buddy, Thank you for putting them up here. I love seeing the Can Am stuff.
That old Ferrari was a tub.
Bruce,
Yes you are correct about the Ferrari underfinanced 1969 Can Am effort.
I think the McLaren effort left the others scrambling. I don't think Roger Penske / Mark Donohue got involved then and the Jim Hall Chaparral H 2 project was a bust.
So as they say " the cream always rises to the top" and Bruce and Denny took full advantage of the situation but sadly that was all about to come to a tragic end on June 2nd 1970.
(Ken H )
At Michigan the Chaparral Team was using a modified McLaren M-12 (Another Trojan built car) while they tried to make the Chaparral 2 H Can Am car competitive. John Surtees was not well so a new young driver, Andrea de Adamich would drive car # 7 instead.
Andrea drove well and finished the race in 5th position.
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Owner Jim Hall checks out his car # 7 in pit lane.
( Jerry Melton photos.. )
Ken H
Andrea de Adamich's driving skills must have been noted here as Bruce McLaren had him in his 3rd Formula One race car an M7D & later an M14D for the 1970 season along with the Alfa Romeo T33 3 litre V-8 engine programme.
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De Adamich on pit lane in Michigan. Sept. 1969.
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KH
Hadn't heard much about the Mac - Chap car until this picture appeared on a USA based Model Car Forum.
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The said Chaparral 2H wasn't liked by Surtees because of the driving position and those tunnel like side windows in the " doors " , they experimented with a raised seating position which of course upset the Aero ..
2H as it was originally - again a Model.
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All wearing Surtees Race Number [ 7 ].
Both Model photos by Jerry Luidahl, a friend from the 1980's - 1982 the Healey Trip to West Coast USA.
Jerry hails from Oregon, met him first at the Snowmass Healey meeting in late July and again in Salem Oregon, Rode shotgun with him in his Healey 100 from Salem to Medford, Oregon for a Healey meeting in August 1982.
When I asked about the McLaren Chaparral, he replied I thought all you Kiwis learnt McLaren at School !!
An English driver at the Michigan Can Am was Tony Dean, driving a Porsche -Audi 908 # 9.
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Tony Dean on the warm up lap in Porsche-Audi # 9
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I can remember that Tony could be very quick.
Towards the end of the 1973 British F 5000 season I went to a race at Snetterton and in a race that included Peter Gethin, Teddy Pilette, Bob Evans etc. at the end of the first lap Tony Dean came around first and was so much faster than the rest of the field as my photo shows.
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Snetterton. 1973. Tony Dean easily in the lead.
(Ken Hyndman photo.. )
Another English driver at the 1969 Michigan Can Am was the popular David Hobbs driving a McLaren M6B with a Ford engine, # 99
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Two American competitors were Lothar Motschenbacher and Peter Revson.
Lothar M in his McLaren M12 # 11
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Peter Revson in his Lola T 163 # 31
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KH
In what was one of the finest moments of Bruce McLaren's career as his team cars came in first, second and third and Jerry Melton captured some of that at Michigan International Speedway September 28th 1969.
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Bruce McLaren leading Jo Siffert and Peter Revson on the pace lap as Denny Hulme is already out of the picture.
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A wonderful moment for Bruce that was never to be repeated as he is the winner in # 4, Denny Hulme is second in # 5 and Dan Gurney is third in # 1, as they come down pit road after the finish. Great stuff.
(Jerry Melton photos.. )
Ken H
In September 1971 Jerry Melton went to the 1971 Canadian Formula One Grand Prix at Mosport.
This short clip describes the race held in very wet conditions and at the 45 second point you will see a brief glimpse of Helmut Marko who sadly retired from racing a year later when a stone went through his visor and he lost the use of his left eye but today he is in charge of the Red Bull Formula One program that has helped Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen and others including Brendon Harley
I am grateful Jerry took his photos mostly during practice when the track was dry.
(Forget the video as it did not want to play here... will be back soon.)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7e66h
Ken H
Loving these superb photos. Thank you so much for sharing.
The race start was delayed 2 hours due to an earlier FF race fatality and the weather deteriorated to the point that the race was red flagged after 60 laps instead of the scheduled 85.
Jackie Stewart in his Tyrrell Ford was fastest qualifier at a time of 1min.15.3
Denny Hulme set fastest race lap of 1min.43.50 which was almost 30 seconds slower than in the dry !
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Denny Hulme in his McLaren M19A # 9
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KH
Sept. 1971. Lap 1 of Canadian GP at Mosport Park.
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Jackie Stewart in the lead in his Tyrrell # 11
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Denny Hulme struggling around in his McLaren M 19A # 9 on Lap 1 as the conditions got worse.
((Jerry Melton photos.. )
The other McLaren M19 A at Mosport had been bought by Roger Penske and Kirk F White for their driver, Mark Donohue, to make his Formula One debut. The car was painted and as usual, beautifully prepared by the Penske team but somehow Mark does not look to fit right in this car # 10 but he drove a fine race to finish third ahead of Denny Hulme.
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Roger Penske checking out the McLaren.
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KH
Chris Amon drove a Matra-Simca MS 120B # 20 (a rather wide and unusual looking F1 car) in the race and came home in 5th position.
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(Ken H.)
Australian driver, Tim Schenken, competed in a Brabham BT 33 # 8 as did NZ driver Howden Ganley in a BRM P 160 # 16.
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Tim Schenken in his Brabham.
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Howden Ganley in BRM # 16 ahead of Chris Amon's Matra and Jackie Ickx in his Ferrari during practice at Mosport..
In the race poor Howden did not make it to the start as a spinning car forced him off the track during the warm up lap !
Tim and Howden would get together in 1974 and form the TIGA race car company that over the next 15 years would build over 400 race chassis for open wheel formulas and sports cars that won their classes from Le Mans to the US IMSA GT Camel Light Class in 1988 before the company closed down in 1989.
( Jerry Melton photos..)
Ken H
I don't know whether BRM had ever done this before or since but they had 5 cars entered at Mosport in 1971.
Jo Siffert # 14, Peter Gethin # 15 and Howden Ganley # 16 in BRM P 160s and George Eaton # 28 BRM P 153 and Helmut Marko also.
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Jo Siffert
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Peter Gethin
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Canadian driver George Eaton in BRM # 28
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For all their entries it was not a successful race for the BRM Team as the best finisher was Jo Siffert in 9th position.
(Jerry Melton photos.. )
KH
The Ferrari team was led by Jacky Ickx along with Clay Reggazoni and Mario Andretti driving Ferrari 312/B2s.
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Jacky Ickx. September 1971
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Jacky Ickx in Ferrari # 4
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I'm sure there were other races in which BRM entered five cars...
I don't have the resources to check which ones.
I think this was the first F1 race that BRM had five cars entered even though they did not all make it through the first lap !
At the next race at Watkins Glen they had five cars entered for the last race of the 1971 F 1 season.
For the first few races of the 1972 F1 season BRM had five cars entered.
With this quote from "Wikipedia"
" The 1972 campaign was generally chaotic: having acquired major sponsorship, Louis Stanley originally planned to field up to six cars (three for established drivers, three for paying journeymen and young drivers) of varying designs including P153s, P160s and P180s and actually ran up to five for a mix of paying and paid drivers until it became obvious that it was completely overstretched and the team's sponsors insisted that the team should cut back to a more reasonable level and only three cars were run in 1973 for Beltoise, Lauda, and Regazzoni. "
Ken H
Colin Chapman and Team Lotus had Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi in car # 2 and Swedish driver, Reine Wisell driving # 3 Lotus 72 D s.
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Memories, there...
The way the tyres are pulling at their sidewalls, remember how they used to have screws in the rims to retain the tyres on their beads?
Ray...I remember early dragster having them, didnt know these guys did as well.thanks for that
the bolts in the rims were to keep the tyre in place after a puncture. they did not screw into the tyre but inboard of the bead. you must remember these tyres ran at 16psi hot, a lot less than the modern radials
I don't think they were specifically for punctures...
They were certainly there in F1 cars and yes, inboard of the beads.
Graham Hill struggled once again in the Brabham BT 34 # 37 which was to be the last F1 car that Ron Tauranac designed for Brabham.
This was a difficult time for the team with ownership changes etc and the "Lobster Claw" design was not competitive.
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Graham Hill studying his notebook.
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Graham Hill getting strapped in to the BT 34
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March Engineering had their March 711 cars designed by Frank Costin of Cosworth motor fame, there for Ronnie Peterson, Nann Galli and Ike Beuttler. This car had the "Spitfire" or " Tea Tray" front wing arrangement.
(One thing for sure is that all the 1971 F1 cars had their own individual designs and easily seen numbers, not like todays cars that seem to all look the same except for the colour of their paint ! )
Ronnie is in car # 17 and drove a fine race to come home second in his race.
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Ike Beuttler in March 711 # 19
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KH
I will attempt to show the 2018 F1 grand prix cars that if painted with the same primer paint would be hard to tell apart.
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Now check out some of the 1971 F 1 cars before wind tunnels etc..( just a few laps at Goodwood and some duct tape ! )
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They were certainly different and easy to follow out on the track. (At least for this old "codger ")
(Ken H)
But did you have to point out Ronnie's poor landing?
John Surtees reckoned you had to get the back wheels down first so you could get the power on...
All the same, your point is well-proven. Later we had some significantly unique-looking cars like the Ferraris of '75-'78, the Wolfs, the FW08 and a couple of others. But today there's just nothing in it.
This, by the way, might enhance your point, Ken... a bit more like primer...
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Thanks Ray,
I appreciate you arranging the latest F1 cars as you did.
p.s. How did you arrange how the car landed at the old Nurburgring circuit ?
Did you just lean back in the seat, hang on and pray ?
(Ken H)
John Surtees drove his Surtees TS 9 # 22 with Rob Walker and Brooke Bond Oxo sponsorship.
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Ken Tyrrell and his Elf Team Tyrrell led the way once again at Mosport in the 1971 Canadian Grand Prix.
Jackie Stewart was the quickest qualifier in Tyrrell 003 # 11 and would go on to win the Grand Prix.
http://www.snaplap.net/tyrrell-003/
Francois Cevert was in Tyrrell 002 # 12.
Stewart also had a spare car # 11T
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Jackie Stewart. 1971.
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Francois Cevert. Sept. 1971.
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Tyrrell mechanics taking a break beside the spare car # 11 T.
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Jackie Stewart checking the spare # 11T.
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Francois Cevert showing his pace in practice. Race day did not go as well.
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Francois Cevert. # 12
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1971 Formula One world Champion, Jackie Stewart driving Tyrrell # 11.
(Jerry Melton photos.. the last of the 1971 Canadian GP.)
(Ken H)
Sadly for me at least, the Jerry Melton racing photos are about to come to an end.
In June, 1975, Jerry went once again to Mosport Park in Canada for a combined meet for IMSA GT and Formula 5000 racing.
One of the cars was prepared and driven by the popular Warren Agor who decided that the DeKon Chevy Monza was a bit expensive at
$ 38,000 US at that time so he built his own Monza to race known as the Agor Monza or (AM1).
Some scenes at Mosport from the Scharch Motorsport site of Warren Agor preparing to go racing in AM1 # 13
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Although it qualified 18th and finished in 10th it was still a thrilling car to watch.
(Jerry Melton, the previous two photos.)
And the car is still thrilling to watch to this day.
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A magnificent machine. (2015 )
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Brian Redman in his 1975 BMW CSL 3.0 # 25 had engine problems in qualifying and even though he started on the front row he knew he probably not finish the race and he didn't but knowing Brian he probably had fun while it lasted.
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Redman alongside Al Holbert's Porsche Carrera # 14 on the pace lap.
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Jerry Melton photos at Mosport. June 1975.
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Brian Redman in the same car waiting to do some demonstration laps at Laguna Seca. August 2016. (41 years later )
Ken Hyndman photo.
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Redman's # 25 BMW CSL at Laguna Seca. August 2017 driven by Ludwig Willisch.
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